Marketing Data & Analytics Engineer Manager & Product Owner

Marketing Data & Analytics Engineer Manager & Product Owner

Job Description

About Us  

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.   

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on!  

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.  

About the role 

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU. 

• Leverage Snowflake, a premier cloud-based data warehousing solution, to revolutionize the digital customer experience. Our commitment to integrating Snowflake with advanced technologies such as cloud services, AI/ML, and data analytics is pivotal to our strategy. This approach allows us to extract meaningful, actionable insights from extensive customer data, enabling personalized interactions and groundbreaking solutions.
• Be at the forefront of our data and analytics strategy. The chosen candidate will lead the direction, design, and execution of initiatives focused on harnessing the power of Snowflake and other data platforms. Your work will improve transparency, enhance revenue management practices, and boost profitability across our brands and product portfolios.
• Lead people and be deeply invested in fostering robust relationships with stakeholders and empowering our team.
• Collaborate and lead teams with a hands-on, empathetic approach, ensuring alignment with our strategic objectives. With a passion for data-driven solutions, this leader will oversee the integration of Snowflake and other advanced technologies, enhancing our capabilities to connect with and serve our clients effectively.
• By focusing on people-centric leadership, this role is pivotal in growing our Kimberly-Clark interactions, making our technology platforms more intuitive, responsive, and aligned with the needs of our customers and teams.
• Kimberly-Clark has an amazing opportunity to continue leading the market, and DTS is poised to deliver compelling and robust digital capabilities, products, and solutions to support it. This role will have substantial influence in this endeavor.
• If you are excited to make a difference applying cutting-edge technologies to solve real business challenges and add value to a global, market-leading organization, please come join us!

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead Data Strategy Development:  Develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with marketing goals and drives business growth.
• Data Governance: Ensure data quality, accuracy, and compliance with relevant regulations and best practices.
• Technology Adoption: Stay updated with the latest advancements in data analytics, AI/ML, and cloud technologies, and implement them to enhance marketing capabilities.
• Lead Data and Analytics Initiatives:  Spearhead initiatives within the Snowflake environment and other advanced data platforms, collaborating closely with Product Managers and stakeholders. You will focus on defining and prioritizing the product backlog in alignment with our strategic mission to revolutionize the consumer experience through data-driven insights.
• Strategic Product Backlog Management: Manage the Data and Analytics product backlog with precision, ensuring that each item aligns with our long-term vision and immediate business needs. Balance new developments, operational tasks, and bug resolutions to deliver continuous value, driving our mission of enhancing transparency and profitability across brands.
• Release Planning and Execution: Develop and maintain release plans for data and analytics enhancements, incorporating financial costs and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Work with Product Managers and delivery teams to set realistic release goals, aligning them with our strategic mission to deliver innovative, market-leading solutions.
• Collaborative Product Development: Engage continuously with the Scrum team and subject matter experts to refine backlog items, ensuring all developments align with our strategic mission and stakeholder expectations. Provide necessary support during sprint sessions to maintain focus on delivering strategic objectives.
• Sprint Management and Execution: Define clear priorities and sprint goals, focused on crucial data and analytics projects that advance our mission. Offer ongoing support to overcome obstacles and ensure smooth workflow, maintaining alignment with our overarching business goals.
• Quality Assurance and Stakeholder Engagement: Evaluate and maintain the integrity of all deliverables within the Snowflake environment, ensuring they meet our standards and mission. Actively participate in agile events, championing stakeholder needs and facilitating effective communication across all levels of the organization.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Coordinate resources across various departments for meticulous planning and execution of product backlog items. Engage in successful sprint reviews, user acceptance testing, and deployment of new features, ensuring each step aligns with our mission to provide exceptional customer-centric solutions.
• Cultural and Team Development: Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the Data and Analytics team. Advocate for professional development and knowledge exchange, building a high-performing team that is dedicated to our mission of delivering innovative solutions.

Technical Expertise:

• Snowflake Ecosystem Proficiency: Over 5 years of hands-on of hands-on experience in tailoring, configuring, and crafting solutions within the Snowflake environment. This includes a profound grasp of Snowflake's data warehousing capabilities, data architecture, SQL optimization for Snowflake, and leveraging Snowflake's unique features such as Snowpipe, Streams, and Tasks for real-time data processing and analytics. My background also encompasses a strong foundation in data migration strategies, performance tuning, and securing data within the Snowflake ecosystem.
• Snowflake Architecture Design: Demonstrated expertise in architecting solutions within the Snowflake ecosystem, adhering to best practices in data architecture and design patterns. This includes leveraging Snowflake's advanced features such as secure data sharing, stored procedures, and integration with external functions. Skilled in optimizing data workflows and enhancing user experiences by utilizing Snowflake's scalable compute and storage capabilities.
• Snowflake Security Proficiency: Comprehensive knowledge of Snowflake's security model, including role-based access control, data encryption at rest and in transit, and implementing Snowflake's security best practices. Familiarity with configuring Snowflake to meet industry security standards and compliance requirements, ensuring the protection of sensitive data within the Snowflake environment.
• Scalability & High Availability: Proven expertise in architecting and implementing Snowflake solutions that are highly scalable and resilient, ensuring business continuity and optimal performance even under high load.
• Snowflake Cloud Services Implementation: Strong track record in leveraging Snowflake’s cloud-based architecture to develop scalable and highly available services, optimizing the use of Salesforce's multi-tenant architecture for efficient resource utilization.
• Agile Development: Profound familiarity with Agile methodologies in the context of Data and Analytics development projects, adept at managing the product backlog, user stories, sprints, and releases within the Snowflake ecosystem.
• Strategic Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking: Ability to tackle complex data-related challenges with strategic foresight and analytical precision, employing data-driven decision-making to navigate and optimize Snowflake implementations for business impact.

Leadership and Management:

• Team Leadership: 7+ years of experience leading large, remote, global IT teams, with 5+ years focused on development lifecycle leadership within a product team framework.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Background in coordinating hardware & software development teams and business owners, with the ability to influence SMEs directly.
• Global Team Management: Experience leading multi-cultural and global teams in a matrix organization, adept at influencing stakeholders and working proactively with business and IT peers globally.

Specialized Skills:

• Prototyping: Ability to engage in rapid prototype development using iterative techniques.
• Vendor and Partner Engagement: Direct experience managing relationships with outsourcing and consulting partners.
• AI, Machine Learning and Data Management: Expertise in leveraging AI and ML for predictive analytics, automating processes, and enhancing decision-making, ensuring solutions are both innovative and data driven.
• Cloud Data Architecture Design: Deep understanding of cloud solutions and architectures, enabling scalable, flexible, and resilient digital infrastructures that support rapid innovation and development.
• AMC: Understanding the Amazon Marketing Cloud platform.

Soft Skills and Others:

• Agile Collaboration: Demonstrated experience in effectively working with Agile and product teams, including involvement with epics, user stories, sprints, and backlog management. Ability to collaborate closely with product owners, engineers, and scrum master’s to foster a productive and agile environment.
• Leadership in Communication and Reporting: Skilled in leading communication efforts and reporting, adept at preparing and presenting comprehensive updates and reports to senior leaders and stakeholders. Ability to succinctly highlight key metrics, progress, and insights, ensuring transparency and alignment at all levels of the organization.
• Expertise in Backlog Prioritization: Proficient in prioritizing the product backlog as a core responsibility of the Product Owner role, ensuring that items are assessed and ordered based on their value, complexity, and impact to the business. Ability to balance various factors such as stakeholder needs, team capacity, market trends, and strategic objectives to guide decision-making and optimize product delivery.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in management information systems/technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. MBA or equivalent is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience as part of large, remote, global IT teams.
• 7+ years focused on development lifecycle product architecture design.
• 3+ years demonstrable experience in Agile and Product team workflows, including epics, features, stories, sprints, and backlog management.​
• Financial Fluency: P&L understanding, business case development, OKRs, KPIs.​
• 5+ years of experience tailoring, configuring, and crafting solutions within the Snowflake environment, including a profound grasp of Snowflake's data warehousing capabilities, data architecture, SQL optimization for Snowflake, and leveraging Snowflake's unique features such as Snowpipe, Streams, and Tasks for real-time data processing and analytics. A strong foundation in data migration strategies, performance tuning, and securing data within the Snowflake ecosystem is essential.
• 5+ years demonstrated expertise in architecting solutions within the Snowflake ecosystem, adhering to best practices in data architecture and design patterns.
• 10+ years of experience in designing large-scale data solutions, performing design assessments, crafting design options and analysis, finalizing preferred solution choice working with IT and Business stakeholders. 
• 10+ years of data engineering or design experience, designing, developing, and deploying scalable enterprise data analytics solutions from source system through ingestion and reporting. 
• Expertise in data modeling principles/methods including, Conceptual, Logical & Physical Data Models for data warehouses, data lakes and/or database management systems. 
• Expertise in Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) integration and data analysis for marketing insights and campaign performance tracking.
• Expertise in programming languages like Python/JavaScript.
• Expertise in Tableau/PowerBI exposure.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operationalizing data solutions and applications using cloud data and analytics services in combination with 3rd parties. 
• 10+ years of hands-on relational, dimensional, and/or analytic experience (using RDBMS, dimensional, NoSQL data platform technologies, and ETL and data ingestion protocols). 
• 10+ years of experience with database development and scripting.

Professional Skills:

• Strong multi-cultural leadership and management skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and passion for product development.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and open to working in agile environments with multiple stakeholders.
• Professional attitude and service orientation; team player.
• Ability to translate business needs into potential analytics solutions.
• Strong work ethic: ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus.
• Ability to build a sense of trust and rapport to create a comfortable and effective workplace.
• Self-starter who can see the big picture, prioritize work to make the largest impact on the business and customer's vision and requirements.

Scope/Categories:

• Role will report to the Data & Analytics Senior Manager. This position has direct reports, and oversight on external resources.
• Travel may include approximately 15% of work time.

Key Interfaces

• Internal: Data & Analytics Product Managers, Data & Analytics Product Teams, Data Science Team, Data & Analytics COE, Cloud COE Team, Enterprise Architecture.
• External: Contractors, Consulting Partners, 3rd Party service providers.

Total Benefits  

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.   

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.   

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.  

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.  

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.  

To Be Considered  

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.  

In the meantime, please check out the careers website. You’ll want to review this and come prepared with relevant questions when you pass GO and begin interviews.   

And finally, the fine print…. 

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.   

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six-digit Job # with your request.  

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.  

Primary Location

Sao Paulo Office

Additional Locations

Buenos Aires - Olivos Office, IT Centre Bengaluru GDTC

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time